Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


9. q MISCELLANEOUS.
Merit is the Trade Mark OF
| -aiia,p ta.t-i1cSuecess. 47.as; ='s''-. q.
I from the Monthly Auction Trade Journal OF
| if .oi,f c. B. Rouss for July, 1881 r.;- avs
Come with me and stand up for, q
moment on, the plateau with the great
credit king and take in a twenty years
sweep of Vision backward over the
wrecks and ruins of mercantile mag
nificehce aud splendor, beginning on
the corner of Grand and the worlds
| great highway. ." "'~T - Here
on, this eveptfhl spot tiourished the
millionaire Cochran and his two part
ners, M'LEAN and SToTEsBuRY, and
here too, where this historic landmark
| of old. Broadway, 466 and 46S now
I floats its sitken folds Of g net spot
| cash" up in the eternal blue, arose,
prospered and declined the great no
| ttion1 .concarn Of HOWARD, SANGER &
Co. {: 7Diagonally across swept, up
froif insignificance beyond the million
line, the lifelong friends of this au-
thor. PEAKE.& OfDYcKE, whose awful
crash shook the metropolis from CEN
| tire to- acknowledgements one
block. away, and within one short
year, EMoRY, Ivy & LEE were driven
along with DIGGs & CUNN1NGHAM, and
fell beyond the dead line, and near
by ,GEoRCE WEEKS, paying a. thou
sand q week rent, was twisted and
bent and broken before the com
mercial cyclone, and last of long
line of merchant princes, LATHRor
LUprSGToN plunged with terrific de-
struction, into anihilation,, burrying
in their ruins legions of minor craft
whose very history was forgotten ere
the smoke was lifted.H go n,qs h'..fn'
Adctjo7s goods have been odr trade
mark and that too. of our successful
generals who have ever kept up with
us, in our grand marches over the
dead phaIanxes of forgotten great
ness, buried beyond resurrection,
and recorded in ledgers that have
long ago been boiled down into pulp
at Pre6le's. 4uction goods means
buying so that you may quote at ten
to-day what was tioelUe yesterday !:
shrinkage of price, but intrinsic value
all still there. The difference be-
tween auction values and regular da-
ted ahead four months deadwood is
about the same as placing two sol
.diers of equal courage, arming one
with an 1912 smooth-bore, the other
with q thirty-sbooter. is s..s 81
Every great house in this country
has it's resident buyer here the entire
year to watch these tremendous ava
lanches from under the red flag, TO
load up with these terrific thunder
bolts that crash and crush and pull
Iverize. What would iStetrdrt and Rid
leg and NJ Guire have done without
these splendid specialties that lifted
them up and led them on and on and
drove them into history! -
1t was auction Vdlues, with quik,
sharp five per cent. that led us from
the Church street Ltltiputtan to this
great and beautiful landmark of the
metropolis. 1t was auction leaders
that has driven to fame and prosper
ity all the prominent merchants of the
century, and it was regular time pur-
chases that crowded the heart-broken,
Isweary-of-Iife fellows whose faith in
favor and friendship was forever
gone, beyond the Jordan line!
What else but; auction Sledge-hdne-
ers, of which we have been the con-
spicuous and successful advocates,
that built this stupendous trade in
| oIn,,o,, ryaoro IN rofh;nn NJ fo hn nm
else, forty-five thousand worse than
nothing. In all these years of toll
and triumph, of adversely and victo-
ries, the credit king was raiIroading
into He'll whole armies of the bright
est, Ioftiest, bravest mercantile cham
pions that ever adorned the anals OF
this great city. ''-' '.'<"'.'.f =''' 20
+ 1t will not do in this fast age OF
scientific modern mercantile warfare
to lay in, on easy TERMS big line OF
regular driftwood, depending on your
imaginary influence, your social
standing, your political, religious and
baseball chums TO Carry you through.
These fellows are generally tough
when pay day comes-smooth and
oily enough as long as you trust them,
but when they get hold of little hard
cash they gravitate to the " ".casH be-
fore delivery concern, where the Vo.
cabulary has no such word as" time -
1.-THE goods bought on time must be
sold on time, just as the hard hitters
captured by mGney down will be sold
for nothihg but the almighty dollar,
Ii is true that Clatffn burned hf:
inatne and fame into che tablets Oh
Itime, but where was he compared tc
that cash king whose note was as cur,
rent in Calcutta as Bank of England
note. Ste05drt was the great advocate
of cnsh-the other the credit champion
land yet who doubts that CIafin was
the ADLER mana greater BRAIN 8
bigger heart? a broader back perhaps,
fbut the double-edged Damascus blade
Itof cashfs at last the arbitrator of the
.Ewofld. 2nIt is this fine stuff, along wifi